NAME

cfingerd.text - cfingerd text rules

EXPLANATION

cfingerd offers different commands that can be placed in text files to
display corresponding information. Each command used with cfingerd in
text files begins with a dollar-sign (or a "$"). This usually
indicates to cfingerd that when it’s displaying a file, it issues the
command given directly after that character and inserts its output.
If you want to display a raw "$" sign, simply put two "$" signs
together, or "$$".
Text commands are only parsed if ALLOW_LINE_PARSING is enabled in
/etc/cfingerd/cfingerd.conf(5). If it is disabled the text files will
be sent as is, complete with any single or double dollar signs they may
contain.

TEXTCOMMANDS

The following is a list of text commands and what they do. They are
checked case insensitively.
$CENTER will display the entire contents of the line. This command
must start at the beginning of the line. This is a very common
command.
$DATE displays the current system date in the format of MM/DD/YY.
$TIME displays the current system time in the format HH:MM A/PM
(timezone).
$IDENT displays the identity of the current person fingering your
system.
$COMPILE_DATETIME displays the date and time of which the current issue
of cfingerd was compiled on your system.
$VERSION displays the current version of cfingerd.
$EXEC executes the rest of the line as a system command and send the
output to the fingering user. Pipes, parameters etc. are available.
The $EXEC command must be on a line by itself in order to function
properly. The command is executed as nobody.nogroup if used in a
system file. If used in a user file (e.g. .plan) the command is
executed as that particular user. cfingerd will fork() before
executing the new command and will drop all priviledges so this is
safe.
This feature is only available if ALLOW_EXECUTION is enabled in
cfingerd.conf. The program may prodeuce a maximum of 10MB of output.